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The Art of the Long Way Around

The world doesn’t need more of your hustle. It needs more of you. There comes a time—midstream, midstride, midlife—when we begin to see it:This life we’re living isn’t something to […]

Tent-Bound: A Poem About Midlife and New Horizons

Tent-Bound No one told me it would come to this—Tent-bound with a full life of songs and heartbreak. Just outside the zipper door,thunder’s convincing accusation:Am I beyond the reach of […]

Strategies For Success: Don’t Self-Promote

In today’s me-centric culture, self promotion is the norm. My least favorite self proclamation is when people use words like “Guru” when speaking about themselves. My good friend Morgan taught […]

Lessons in Managing Your Emotional Calories For Optimal Output

Are you tired? Worn out? A little dull and not sure why? Flirting with burnout? Have you been pushing hard? Just finished a long season of insane work hours? You’ve […]

Be Generous and Become Wealthy

People say they are generous, but most are not. Donations are not necessarily the same as being generous. I donate our household items to Goodwill that we no longer need. […]

Be the Hero of Your Life

Sometimes I feel like I’m viewing the world through a GoPro camera on slow-motion frame-by-frame…stop..start..pause…play. I watch other people seemingly unburdened and able to live in real-time without the bothersome […]

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask, “Why?”

I want to share a conversation that reminded me of the importance of asking, “why are we doing this?” Me: Tell me about how you do your job. Co-worker: When […]

You’ve Got Mad Skills

An excerpt from Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. The World Needs You I’m going to assume that you’re reading this manifesto because something […]

Rest Like a Dog Sledding Champion

I learned the hard way that I am not a robot. For decades I pushed myself to the brink of depression and emotional exhaustion. When I was younger, I was […]

Scarcity and Abundance: What Do You Believe?

A single mother raised me. Growing up, I watched her despairingly pay for groceries using food stamps. I mowed lawns to pay for my school clothes. On more than one […]